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Game 26: Penn State at Michigan Open Thread

Michigan looks to get back on track with an early Sunday matinee against Penn State at the Crisler Center. Tip off is scheduled for noon eastern with Tom Hamilton and Shon Morris handling announcing duties for the Big Ten Network. Michigan will wear throwback uniforms and the game has been dubbed a stripe out as part of the Crisler Center Dedication weekend.

Join in the discussion below before, during and after the game to share your thoughts, predictions and observations.

They went to him for Caris w/ Tim having three fouls. Strategy didn’t work.

Wayman Britt

The transition dunks look great and the crowd loves them, but truthfully how many of those are you going to get against IU, MSU and UW.

Angman

This is exactly how upsets happen in March. Slow start by the favored team, the underdog gains confidence, the favorite continues to play crap defensively, and all of sudden it’s a 3 point game with 10 minutes to go. With the way they came out of the gates well in the second half, this lead should be 15, but they continue to give up offensive rebounds and transition 3s. Buckle up, this last 10 minutes is going to be more frantic than it needed to be.

Dr_ZC

Why do we use Vogrich? Missed a box out and two defensive assignments? We really have a way to make opposite offenses brilliant.

Right, but nick has the game of his life at the 2. Put another big in.

umnyc

We need to work on boxing out and playing solid on ball D. We go for too many steals and blocks… Great when we convert, but leaves us in awful defensive position when we miss… And that happens a lot

CDeSana

That charge could have been called on us a few times today; Timmy, Nik and GRIII tend to do the same thing dump it off too late and plow into the defender just waiting to take the charge. Gotta stop leaving their feet to deliver the pass.

Wayman Britt

Why is Horford leaving his man to double team 35 feet from the hoop then his man scores.

CDeSana

Cazzie nails it! Mitch has helped but we simply need to be better in the interior defense and on the defensive rebounds.

It definitely wasn’t on Nik but yeah probably didn’t need to be called on them either.

Angman

Watching our transition and early offence is so much fun, they run it so well. What I hope continues to get hammered into our guys’ heads is that we create the transition and early offence off of actually stopping the other team. If they improve on defence, the sky is the limit. If not, it’s going to be a short March run.

We will get a win today, but I have not seen UM improve any on defense or rebounding today.

David

We are allergic to D.

Angman

Can’t seem to get a stop if our life depended on it.

MGoTweeter

I will say that michigan has played more physical this half. A few bad bounces got guys out of position and led to easy baskets. But for the most part the defense has been better.

David

I don’t think so. Their OEff is going to be around 108. This has not been a great defensive effort.

MGoTweeter

Can’t just look at numbers. Michigan basically stepped aside in the first half on D. Second half they did a much better job. Unfortunately the ball bounced to psu on several occasions and psu made some shots

CDeSana

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh how many bunnies have we given up today do to bad switches?

Scott Kremkow

Vogrich has 2, LeVert has 1. no Michigan man available for 6th man of the game award.

Dr_ZC

Our interior defense is a farce. They had 4 players under our basket and we were nowhere near for the board.

Scott Kremkow

Wisconsin 39 Ohio 22 at the half.

CDeSana

Not pretty that is for sure

umnyc

I’m happy about the win, but out effort continues to be suspect.

Dr_ZC

Somebody mentioned we need to play hellacious defense. I think he misspelled hilarious. I say we still need to play with 2 bigs down low, but keep Robinson Stauskas Tim and Trey in the lineup.. Oh, wait.. Is it illegal to play defense with 6 players?

Mattski

I think the coach will take this one. But it’s hard to imagine us shoring up the D enough to go very deep into the tournament. Still no JoMo, that’s true. But McGary has taken a step back.